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Why, your folks are cute chaps, I vow; they'd puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer, they are so amazin' knowin'. 'Ah, said he, and he rubb'd his hands and smiled, like a young doctor, when he gets his first patient; 'ah, said he, 'if the timber duties are altered, down comes St.
To be carried to the Hawaiian Islands, two thousand miles away, was no pleasant thought. Besides, what would their folks think of their prolonged absence? "Mother will think that we have all been drowned," said Dora. "And that is what our folks will think, too," said Nellie. "Oh, it is terrible, simply terrible!" And she wrung her little hands.
"Well," said Deborah, "I've got a sense of justice, and if my son, or any other man, has asked a girl to marry him, and she's got her weddin' clothes ready, I believe in his doin' his duty, if he can be made to; but I must say if it wa'n't for that, I'd rather he'd gone into a family that was more like other folks. I'm goin' to do the best I can, whether you go half way or not.
'Just think of it! I heard her cry to her sister, 'when I've told my seminary chums that I've been up in a real airship! Then, seeing that she was safe, I think her folks were just as proud of her exploit as she was. Anyhow, she ran up to her father in a coaxing way, and came back to place a bank note in my hand.
Then Ned and Tom gave themselves up to the delights of a trip on the water. The Kilo, which name Tom had selected for his new craft, was a powerful boat, and comfortable. It swept on down the lake, and many other persons, in their pleasure craft, turned to look at Tom's fine one. "Lots of folks out to-day," observed Ned, as they went around a point of the shore.
"Is too much," concluded Roy. "In the first place, there would have to be a whole lot of discomfort." "You got that out of a book!" shouted Pee-wee. "Footsore and weary that's the way folks talk in books!" "We might be caught in the rain," said Roy, soberly. "We might have to pick our way along obscure trail or up steep mountains."
There wasn't any one who knew me down there, so I felt safe to ventur' a few inquiries. What I heard was that she'd gone home to her folks and was as well off as anybody need be. That broke me all up at first. I must have had a sneakin' notion that maybe some day I could see my way to go back to her, but that let me out completely. I quit then, and I've stayed quit.
An enthusiastic welcome from three big boys and several pretty children speedily soothed her ruffled feelings, and leaving Amy to entertain the hostess and Mr. Tudor, who happened to be calling likewise, Jo devoted herself to the young folks and found the change refreshing.
He had picked up a little English from seein our folks there so much, and when he got up, the first thing he said was, Damn all sheenery, I say, where's my boat? and he looked round as if he thought it had jumped on board too.
Robbie himself was customarily in the card-room; only now and again, when he cut out, he made an incursion among the young folks, and rolled about jovially from one to another, the very picture of the general uncle. It chanced that Flora had met Mr. Robbie in the course of the afternoon. 'Now, Miss Flora, he had said, 'come early, for I have a Phoenix to show you one Mr.
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